Now that Wizards own DnDBeyond, I wonder if planeshift materials will become available here.
For those who might wonder what I am talking about: Planeshift was a series of half official pdfs created by people in Wizards of the Coast that provide some metterials to play on different MTG planes of existence.
Though there is no way of telling what might happen, I would be surprised if these materials were added to D&D Beyond. While some of the information they provide about Magic’s planes are interesting, the actual content feels a lot more like mediocre homebrew than official content.
Besides, given how successful their Magic books have been, they probably would prefer to wait until they can release a full sourcebook for those planes.
Since Planeshift is put out by WotC it technically is official content. It's just "web only free supplemental content." I would imagine that the same licensing arrangement that has applied to all official WotC content applies to Planeshift as well. I'm guessing the only reason it hasn't already been added to DDB is a perceived lack of demand, ie not financially viable to spend the effort to code it into DDB due to lack of sufficient demand. If that's the case I doubt anything will change just because DDB is moving "in house" to WotC.
It isn't here right now, because it wasn't part of the agreement between DDB and WotC. It was outside their scope. That may change, but I doubt it'll show up due to a lack of demand.
Epic Boons have a much higher demand, and have existed for longer, but still don't exist.
Perhaps. But I suppose those things run into the same issue as Unearthed Arcana content. DDB stopped support for it because they needed employee efforts elsewhere. Unfortunate, but honest. What a great way to get playtest out to people though...
Now that Wizards own DnDBeyond, I wonder if planeshift materials will become available here.
For those who might wonder what I am talking about: Planeshift was a series of half official pdfs created by people in Wizards of the Coast that provide some metterials to play on different MTG planes of existence.
Since Planeshift is put out by WotC it technically is official content. It's just "web only free supplemental content." I would imagine that the same licensing arrangement that has applied to all official WotC content applies to Planeshift as well. I'm guessing the only reason it hasn't already been added to DDB is a perceived lack of demand, ie not financially viable to spend the effort to code it into DDB due to lack of sufficient demand. If that's the case I doubt anything will change just because DDB is moving "in house" to WotC.
There is no such thing as "half official" and they are precisely technically not official. Every Planeshift release includes the disclaimer that they were not subjected to the full design process official D&D projects go through. It's basically the equivalent of D&D studio designers back in the day putting stuff out on Dragon magazine, or the or the present day equivalent Designers putting something out on DMsGuild (apart from the two 5e products that actually are "official" 5e resources).
None of that says that Planeshift can't show up here; but Planeshift was designed, as I understood it, to get cross interest between MtG and D&D players around specific MtG releases. I don't see the point in D&D Beyond committing resources to putting Planeshift online in an "official D&D digital resource", especially given D&D's increased publication tempo between now and the next few years will likely have the DDB team's hands full just bringing the actually official stuff on line, pending whatever additional resources WotC may furnish as the integration goes on.
A lot of stuff could possibly happen, but until you see some actual official indication or market research indicate that it's being officially entertained, it's all just pretty to think so.
If anything on the margins of "official D&D" gets ported into DDB, I imagine the first things we'd see are Domains of Delight and the Minsc and Boo book, which are official releases (though at M+B was marred with typos, glad I didn't spring for hardcopy on that one). I also think we'd see UA, at least new UA, returning to DDB before anyone with any capacity to make it so even considers brining Planeshift online.
Now that Wizards own DnDBeyond, I wonder if planeshift materials will become available here.
For those who might wonder what I am talking about: Planeshift was a series of half official pdfs created by people in Wizards of the Coast that provide some metterials to play on different MTG planes of existence.
Though there is no way of telling what might happen, I would be surprised if these materials were added to D&D Beyond. While some of the information they provide about Magic’s planes are interesting, the actual content feels a lot more like mediocre homebrew than official content.
Besides, given how successful their Magic books have been, they probably would prefer to wait until they can release a full sourcebook for those planes.
Since Planeshift is put out by WotC it technically is official content. It's just "web only free supplemental content." I would imagine that the same licensing arrangement that has applied to all official WotC content applies to Planeshift as well. I'm guessing the only reason it hasn't already been added to DDB is a perceived lack of demand, ie not financially viable to spend the effort to code it into DDB due to lack of sufficient demand. If that's the case I doubt anything will change just because DDB is moving "in house" to WotC.
It isn't here right now, because it wasn't part of the agreement between DDB and WotC. It was outside their scope. That may change, but I doubt it'll show up due to a lack of demand.
Epic Boons have a much higher demand, and have existed for longer, but still don't exist.
That being said, I'd love to see Pyromancer show up. It was ultra boring, but super strong.
Perhaps. But I suppose those things run into the same issue as Unearthed Arcana content. DDB stopped support for it because they needed employee efforts elsewhere. Unfortunate, but honest. What a great way to get playtest out to people though...
There is no such thing as "half official" and they are precisely technically not official. Every Planeshift release includes the disclaimer that they were not subjected to the full design process official D&D projects go through. It's basically the equivalent of D&D studio designers back in the day putting stuff out on Dragon magazine, or the or the present day equivalent Designers putting something out on DMsGuild (apart from the two 5e products that actually are "official" 5e resources).
None of that says that Planeshift can't show up here; but Planeshift was designed, as I understood it, to get cross interest between MtG and D&D players around specific MtG releases. I don't see the point in D&D Beyond committing resources to putting Planeshift online in an "official D&D digital resource", especially given D&D's increased publication tempo between now and the next few years will likely have the DDB team's hands full just bringing the actually official stuff on line, pending whatever additional resources WotC may furnish as the integration goes on.
A lot of stuff could possibly happen, but until you see some actual official indication or market research indicate that it's being officially entertained, it's all just pretty to think so.
If anything on the margins of "official D&D" gets ported into DDB, I imagine the first things we'd see are Domains of Delight and the Minsc and Boo book, which are official releases (though at M+B was marred with typos, glad I didn't spring for hardcopy on that one). I also think we'd see UA, at least new UA, returning to DDB before anyone with any capacity to make it so even considers brining Planeshift online.
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